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estebanana -> RE: My photo of the week 54 (Jan. 29 2013 21:00:19)
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I see Peter Pan and you see a scene from a horror film.
As a result of having had six years of studio art and art history schooling I tend to look at things formally, but comment snarkily.
My way of saying that in Kubrick's work, The Shining, the depth of field and framing, cutting out the sky in a winter landscape, often makes the stills from the film look mysterious. You see deeply into long vistas of snow lined "hallways" between shrubbery. You wonder what is back there. So I was comparing Simon's photo to Kubrick's framing devices in that particular film. Since Kubrick was a master of the still image in a filmic context I thought it was ok to say that this photo reminded me of the formal qualities of his still frames.
Which is why guys like me are exceptionally snarky and bothersome. If you explain things formally you look like a total know it all putz, but if you cover your need to analyze with snarky twisted commentary which alludes to your real intention of a complement, you can be mistaken for a Peter Pan basher. ( Which I am !)
I also see Dr. Zhivago stills. And I see a photo of a winter landscape that does not need any superimposed verbiage to make it work.
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